Sorry, first post here! When I opened other.xls files I had the choice of using Excel Compatability Mode to convert them to .xlsx files - they open fine. However I have some .xls files that I can neither open nor delete (and I wasn't in preview mode). Delete would be fine. Hope this makes it clearer.

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